Irakli Tsereteli

Irakli Tsereteli (20 November 1881-20 May 1959) was Minister of the Interior and Minister of Post and Telegraph under the Russian Provisional Government in 1917, as well as one of the leaders of the Mensheviks and the Petrograd Soviet.

Biography
Irakli Tsereteli was born on 20 November 1881 in Kutaisi, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire (in the present-day Republic of Georgia), and he was involved in student protests in Moscow while studying law. In 1902, he was exiled to Siberia after a demonstration, but he was released in 1903, and he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in England. In 1905, he was elected to the State Duma as a menshevik, but he was exiled to Irkutsk in 1913 after the dissolution of the duma. During the Russian Revolution, Tsereteli joined the Russian Provisional Government, and he served as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Post and Telegraph. He also emerged as one of the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet, but the Bolsheviks ordered his arrest in November 1917 after the overthrow of Alexander Kerensky's government. Tsereteli fled to the Democratic Republic of Georgia, and he went into exile in France after the Bolsheviks took over Georgia during the Russian Civil War. Tsereteli died in New York City in 1959.